Wow, with that cheery expression, that round, childish face, and that hair color, Luna could easily be the heroine of a shoujo manga aimed at young teens. Even in TSS she didn't look that young (well, you could dispute that here, but generally speaking). The simple, cheerful look kind of reminds me of GameArts' Takemoto Izumi games, Yumimi Mix and Dina Airan.

BTW phyco, Luna's eyes were not consistent in TSS. In the opening and ending they're brown (notice that Alex's eyes are brown as well... this is an anomaly, assumably caused by palette constraints). There are more instances of Luna with blue eyes in TSS that there are with brown.

Really? I always saw it as the other way around...that Luna's eyes are brown in TSS and any instances of blue are anomalous. I'm not sure I've seen any pre-remake official (as opposed to in-game) art with blue eyes. It probably exists, but every instance I recall shows her with brown, both Kubooka and Funato art. Looking through the I+II artbook, there's not one isntance I can see of her having blue eyes -- even Dark Althena is shown with brown eyes in the concept drawing, and of course all the disc art shows brown-eyed Luna. Althena, as shown in my avatar, has blue eyes, of course, but I've never seen any other art of her until the remakes. I can't quite tell from the screenshots what color her eyes are in the EB recording, but they look quite dark, certainly not the blue of her hair.

I'm not at all confident about what color Luna's eyes are meant to be in TSS, but in the Burg spring and Saith dock cutscenes, as well as her text portrait, they're blue. I think that covers everything in-game except the opening, ending, and instances where her eyes are red. But as you point out, all of Kubooka's promotional art for TSS features a brown-eyed Luna. The weight of evidence tends toward brown, but I wonder if the staff didn't just change their minds in the middle...

About Althena in EB - in the pulled-out shots brown tones were used on her pupils, but in close-ups her eyes seem to be pale blue.

BTW, Isn't Lucia shown with green eyes in the Lunar 1&2 artbook, even though her eyes are consistently blue in the original EB?

Possibly, but consider that Kyle's hair is blue-green in his portrait but is pretty consistently black/gray in the rest of his artwork.

Lucia's eyes are blue-green, I'm pretty sure; certainly her remake artwork seems to show eyes that are slightly greener than her hair, and I think a NPC describes her as having seagreen eyes (the painter in Larpa, probably). In the artbook, she's shown with both blue and green eyes; of the two color drawings of her earlier, blonde design, one's with blue eyes and one with green. Her final designs also vary a bit in the blue-green range. Funato's Lunatic Parade version and similar show her with out-and-out green eyes, but then, Jean has rather muddy-green hair in those comics (and, by contrast, is shown with almost teal hair in her own design pages). So I would say it's not so much that Lucia's eyes are inconsistent as that it's a bit of a palette limitation; most of those colored drawings are with markers and they're not really the best for coming up with ultimate color schemes. (For that matter, some of the drawings of Alex show the same grayed bluish color, and his eyes are the one pair in all of the character designs whose color is clearly defined in text in-game.) For the actual animations in EB, of course, a color had to be selected and I'd guess that palette limitations had something to do with it; the green of the crystal would have been too green.

That is a good point; there are a lot of inconsistencies in the old portraits. Ramus's hair is blue-black in his. That strengthens the case of the brown-eyed Luna.

I agree with you about Lucia - if her eyes are the same color as her hair, that saves 2 or 3 colors on the palette, and Lunar 2 usually holds to under 30 colors per frame (which is more efficient than Lunar 1 in some instances). The old Lucia sketches demonstrate that there was an intent to make her eyes a greener shade (it is rather yellowish in the artbook sketches, isn't it?), but the staff decided to make a change. Since the remake staff didn't have to control color usage so closely, they went ahead with the green eyes.